Rowling Admits Christian Theme

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No: HPFGUIDX 178109

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
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> Here is a news article of an interview with Rowling.
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> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572107/20071017/index.jhtml
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> So now we have it from Rowling herself.
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> Tonks_op
>

It was fairly explicit all along if you read the signs. I was firmly 
convinced that Harry was going to die from OOTP onwards. In fact I 
still feel in some ways that the Deathly Hallows were her 'get out of 
jail free card' to enable the sacrificial death without him actually 
dying. But I can also see that they 'gave' Harry his resurrection 
which also fits the mythic pattern. After all it goes back further 
than Christianity but because our culture is 'Christian' that is the 
theme that is most evoked. 

In the end though I am left feeling that the Harry Potter books were 
an old tune played on a new instument. That is not to denigrate them 
at all, they mined the store of myths and legends which many many 
authors have done before, Tolkien, Lewis, Cooper et al. It is amusing 
though that so many Christians were so anti-potter (and many still 
are). The themes of the books transcend all religions though and I 
shall always be grateful for the quest they forced me to take, to 
find understanding of my own reaction to them and the knowledge I 
have gained as a result. 

allthecoolnamesgone